First time making this card - seen a few folks on the MB and wanted to give it a try. Cut at 5", a liner of beige was also cut. Paper flower from Oriental Trading glued on Pearls added through out the swirls (pearls from Michaels).

Well - I had to try my hand at the doily card from the wild card cartridge. This was cut at 5", the top of the card was embosed with swiss dots from Cuttlebug. I added shiny rhinestones between the scallops.

I layered the inner panel pink. Cheers is also cut from WC at real size 1 1/2. Pearls are from Michaels and the silk flowers is from a yard sale.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

I decided to enter. Non traditional colors. MS snowflake punch, glittered. Stamps from Inkdinkado, cloth ribbon is from my stash (to mimick a scarf). You cannot see it - but I SIZZIX emboss the cream CS with snowmen.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Step 3 Cut on 4 corners (see pencil lines) Step 4 Glue each flap in to form boxStep 5 Cut 19" of ribbon or lace, I used eyelets and flowers to attach them to the front and back sides. This also reinforces the panels from step 4

I received these gorgeous paper flowers yesterday. I bought them from http://www.orientaltrading.com/. Since they came jumbled in one clear square box (which I will repurpose later) I wanted to repurpose the baby food jars I had. (My DD had her wisdom teeth out and loves the banana fruit. LOL)I separated the flowers into the 4 colors and put them all (that was fun – there was so many) in it’s own jar.

I cut a 1 x 7 ½ piece of coordinated paper or CS and glued it around the belly of the jar. The cover was also covered with a 1 ¾ circle and glue dot in place.

I am in the process of making a box to put them in and will store them on my shelf. I will post that when I have completed it.

I needed some card keepers - to segregate all my cards that I make. While I saw quite a few how to's on SCS and you tube - as I was emptying a snack box, you know the ones with granola bars in them.. I thought why build one from scratch when I can cover the sturdy boxes, so I covered 4 - here are a couple shown here.I will segregate the season, or theme in each box and store them on my shelf. I find they hold the standard A2 card and envie. Approx 8 - 10 depending on how much embelleshments you put on the card.Font on both boxes is from Wild Card cricut cartridge

When I saw this wrapping paper (glitter red) at the grocery store - I thought it would make a great accent for a card. I also had bought a wire kit and never used it! So I tried my hand at making the filagree and the heart - so simple! The unit has pegs which you wrap the wire around to make the shapes. I used a small brad to hold it to the card. Love them - will have to do more with the wire. Hope you like.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

I usually do a whole month on 4 sides of one cover of a boutique tissue box, but decided to use two sides per month.

Had fun using PDDU Cricut cartridge. It was my first cut - leprecan from page 40, pot of gold and I hand cut the rainbow. Coins were used from a punch that I inked to make them look gold in color. Shamrocks also on page 40. Hope you like. Close up of pot and coins